Dec. 1st, 2008

raconteur

Dec. 1st, 2008 07:29 am
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raconteur - n., a person skilled at telling anecdotes and stories.


You want to have one of these at your dinner party, but not too many of them. From French, from Middle French raconter to tell, from Old French, from re- + aconter, to tell, count -- and thus a cognate of account.

---L.

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